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A team of researchers, neurologists and tech experts is trying to find out what 800 brains belonging to epilepsy patients have in common, running their MRI scans through artificial intelligence as part of an ambitious new project which could save the nation billions of dollars each year.

The Australian Epilepsy Project’s new research is part of a growing trend – one in which researchers, specialists and doctors team up to use the rapidly advancing technology to look for the kinds of patterns, anomalies and similarities which would usually take research teams months to detect.

Many calls to crisis support services go unanswered due to workload, and are expensive, but Dr Bin Rong’s start-up has harnessed AI to change that and help those in desperate need.

Chinese artificial-intelligence developers have found a way to use the most advanced American chips without bringing them to China.

In June, more than 300 servers were loaded with the chips in a data centre in Brisbane. Three weeks later, they began processing AI algorithms for a company in Beijing.

Let me know what you think — lynchj@theaustralian.com.au